Chief of staff Quote by Michael Wolff

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch…

— Larry Speakes

There's no question almost press secretaries talk about the sense of serving two masters. On the one hand you want to protect the president's…

— Dee Dee Myers

Formerly, a public man needed a private secretary for a barrier between himself and the public. Nowadays he has a press secretary, to keep…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“There would be, in other words, one chief of staff in name—the unimportant one—and various others, more important, in practice, ensuring both chaos and…

— Michael Wolff

A president is always cosseted by his staff.

— Monica Crowley

The president's personal staff has a unique role

— Colin Powell

The Presidents job, is not to wield power himself, but to lead attention away from it.

— Douglas Adams

“virtually the entire senior staff and cabinet of the Trump presidency, past and present, had traveled through the stages of adventure, challenge, frustration, battle,…

— Michael Wolff

You as the press secretary have to protect the president's interests and the White House's interests more broadly. And a lot of people inside…

— Dee Dee Myers

If Reince Priebus is, in fact, the chief of staff and operating as chief of staff, he is the most important staffer the president…

— Susan Page

“...the leader should reserve to himself the hiring, compensating, motivating, molding, assessing and firing of his chief lieutenants.”

— Steven B. Sample

I certainly don't think that it's the job of any journalist to make the presidency work.

— Jake Tapper